Catalogue description Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Newcastle Central Office, Overseas Group, files

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Reference: PIN 57
Title: Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Newcastle Central Office, Overseas Group, files
Description:

This series contains files of the Newcastle Central Office, Overseas Group relating to the administration of reciprocal agreements with overseas governments for the payment of pensions and other social security benefits.

The files in this series relate both to the internal concerns of the Overseas Group and, particularly, to the links with the International Relations Division.
Date: 1947-2006
Related material:

For policy files of the Central Pensions Branch of the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) see BN 39
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Department of Social Security, 1988-2001
Physical description: 76 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1982 Department of Health and Social Security
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Overseas Group at the Newcastle Central Office was set up in 1948 to take responsibility for the operation, though not the negotiation, of reciprocal agreements with overseas countries for the payment of pensions and other social security benefits and, subsequently, for the administration of European Community regulations in this field.

In 1974, carrying out the same functions, it became the Overseas Branch of the Office's B Division. It acts in close liaison with the department's International Relations Division, situated in London, whose function is to consider policy in these matters.

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